quarrel

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person.""That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said.""All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it.""But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,do wrong when they should do right.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be.I was the happiest man in the world.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean _ or what we really think.

Oppression is opposition.

Don__ say to yourself, __veryone argues!_ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.